From Maraini to Trevi, enchantment by 40 authors to Buchmesse and Aie

(ANSA) – ROME, JUNE 24 – From Dacia Maraini to Emanuele Trevi and from Antonio Scurati to Melania Mazzucco: they’re among the many 40 Italian writers among the many roughly 100 who’re a part of the Italian delegation that may characterize Italy on the Frankfurt Guide Honest 2024, who signed a letter addressed to the director of the Buchmesse Juergen Boos and to the president of the Italian Publishers Affiliation Innocenzo Cipolletta wherein they specific “concern” for “a critical lack of cultural and editorial technique on the a part of the extraordinary fee appointed in Italy” and wherein they ask for “a second of public assembly” with German authors at Buchmesse. Within the full record of signatories there are: Viola Ardone, Silvia Avallone, Andrea Bajani, Marco Balzano, Guido Barbujani, Franco Buffoni, Giulia Caminito, Olga Campofreda, Teresa Ciabatti, Mauro Covacich, Maurizio De Giovanni, Mario Desiati, Donatella Di Pietrantonio, Claudia Durastanti, Antonio Franchini, Vins Gallico, Paolo Giordano, Igort, Helena Janeczek, Nicola Lagioia, Vivian Lamarque, Ginevra Lamberti, Vincenzo Latronico, Beatrice Masini, Francesca Melandri, Daniele Mencarelli, Marco Missiroli, Valeria Parrella, Rosella Postorino, Paolo Rumiz, Roberto Saviano, Gianluigi Simonetti, Fabio Stassi, Chiara Valerio, Carlo Vecce, Alessandro Veronesi and Alice Urciuolo. “Every of us would have favored, throughout our keep in Frankfurt, to work together with the protagonists of German publishing and past, with our European and worldwide colleagues, in a historic second wherein we’d like greater than ever to really feel belonging to a singular tradition. As a substitute, Italy will likely be current on the Buchmesse in an insular method, by a program of duets between Italian authors, an anomaly that we all know has few precedents within the historical past of the host international locations and which denotes a critical lack of cultural technique and editorial by the extraordinary fee appointed in Italy, the initiative of the person authors and their German publishers will make it doable to not less than partially treatment this reckless method” they write within the letter. (HANDLE).